Stephen Williams

Stephen Williams (born 6 June 1996) is a Welsh professional cyclist who currently rides for UCI ProSeries Team . His career wins include overall victories in the 2021 CRO Race and 2023 Arctic Race of Norway, and stage one of the 2022 Tour de Suisse. Career After racing for and as an amateur, he joined as a stagiaire in August 2018 and became a full member of the team in 2019. Along with Mark Cavendish, he had planned to join for the 2023 season but the team collapsed before the season began. He later accepted an offer for 2023 from on a one-year contract. Race wins Williams made his breakthrough in the 2018 Ronde de l'Isard, an under-23 event in France. Williams dominated the four-stage race, winning the first and second stages on his way to victory in both the general and mountain classifications. He also won stage five of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia or "Baby Giro" in the same year. His first professional victory was stage five of the 2021 CRO Race, a result that also gave him the lead of the race. He rode to the line in a three-rider breakaway on the sixth and final stage, finishing second on the day but sealing overall victory by seventeen seconds.